Posted on 01/15/2016 3:22:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In August, U.S. Army veteran Spence Rogers sold his house in Tampa, Florida and bought an RV, and set off with his wife and three children for a cross-country adventure.
"We wanted to go to the mountains, wanted to go maybe check out Montana, wanted to check out different states -- just enjoy ourselves," Rogers explained.
Instead, they found themselves parking semi-permanently on flatter land.
Rogers, his family and the RV ended up in Iowa -- a state he had never before visited -- and instead of sightseeing, he signed on to be Cruz's deputy director for Iowa.
Rogers, who has an MBA and his own marketing company, is a West Point graduate who served in the Army for seven years and helped lead 2007 Iraq war surge as a logistics officer.
"I wrote the order, I briefed all the company commanders, and then I actually ran it that night. And we had to set up three coalition outposts and one joint synchronization center," Rogers recalls. "We had like 10 days after we got in country to do this."
Bryan English, Cruz's Iowa State Director, was looking for someone who could re-create that surge in Iowa....
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Nothing wrong with living in an RV, if you can make it work.
I hope the misspoken “Ne York values” does not sink Cruz: until that line, he had campaigned quite well, but his nomination is highly unlikely.
They might even settle down there. Iowa is family friendly, has high SAT/ACT scores and the economy is doing better than most. Very few Iowans are farmers, it is more financial services and insurance now.
What makes you think that?
I thought about doing that to save money when I was out of work a few years ago. I knew I would be moving to another city to get a job, and thought it would be easier if I lived in the target city (Austin Texas).
This won’t hurt Cruz. People know what he means and the more Trump talks, the more people will realize that Trump qualifies as having New York values.
If political gaffes were the true metric of this campaign this year, Trump should be near 0%.
I lived in Davenport when I was a kid. I hated it, the people were jerks, and that tainted my view of Iowa for a long time. Then I went to Cruz’s Religious Freedom Rally and the Iowa State Fair and my opinion of Iowa is much better. I hear people say the Quad Cities are really Illinois.
Did he say anything about Goldman Sachs values?
They say El Paso is really NM and Wichita Falls is OK too. Shreveport is sometimes referred to as easternmost TX.
It may not hurt Cruz that much, yes, but he has an immense road ahead of him.
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